From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Feb 5 15:28:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k15MSKE0008039; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:28:20 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k15MSHMn009385 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:28:17 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k15JxwFI009283 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:59:58 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k15JxwhJ009282 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:59:58 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k15JtRFI009233 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:55:27 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k15MNaGN005831 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:23:36 -0700 X-Envelope-From: KFurBallKell@aol.com Sun Feb 5 15:23:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k15MNaE0005820 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:23:36 -0700 Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com (imo-m27.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.8]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k15MNYuV006720 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:23:34 -0700 Received: from KFurBallKell@aol.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.295.4f8227b (57293) for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:23:29 -0500 (EST) From: KFurBallKell@aol.com Message-ID: <295.4f8227b.3117d4e1@aol.com> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:23:29 EST Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Why should people help you? To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5022 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Maybe so, but if people are going to post with erroneous information, then they also should be willing to put up with a little criticism, and correction of what they've posted. It does no good for anyone to not tell another when they've got it wrong. Thats how they learn. Sharon I would say constructive criticism is good, but constructive is a keyword. I agree with Karen who said there are all types of people on these lists and I would add that those people have all sorts of reason for studying their family history. Some of those reasons have changed over time as mine did. I started out wanting to find out about my birth family because I was adopted, now I have moved past just doing that to being fascinated with History in general. When I am not hot on the trail of one of my own lines, I am happy to look things up for others. I also don't mind asking for clarification if the first information they give is a little fuzzy.It is sort of like a treasure hunt, and a way I can relax after a stressful day at work. One piece of input I would have is for those who consider themselves experts on their family to keep an open mind. I have only been at this for about 15 years with 10 of those using the computer, and have found some things where the family history totally missed people or those people somehow just got misplaced in their reporting of their findings. Just this last week I was able to track a relative to a family where the main researcher of that line had completely skipped him in their reporting because he was born after the 1950 census and that was the one they used to show the names of the children. My poor James just didn't exist because of people copying the main researcher and not checking for themselves. So don't discount the newbie they may just know something you don't or have information great aunt Ethel left that you have been looking for. Sheila Kell